More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."
"That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."